1. Scholarship Day
2. Leadership Day
3. Philanthropy Day
4. Sisterhood Day (Preference Night)
5. Bid Day
Scholarship day is typically the first day and it's casual, more relaxed than the other days and meant for you to quickly learn about the sororities. At USC, it's actually two days long since there are many sororities. USC Greek Life also provides PNM's (potential new members) with t-shirts as a part of rush and all the girls wear those that day! The wonderful Pi Chi's (recruitment leaders) go around with all the groups of girls, spending 20 minutes in each house!
Leadership day whittles the pool down a little (for USC PNM's it goes to a maximum of 7 sororities) and you spend 35 minutes with each house finding out what each does on campus. You wear the second of the two shirts today, again staying calm and casual. These days are great because you won't have to worry about the crazy heat or sweating through a dress!
Philanthropy day is again down to a maximum of 4 sororities, helping you find where you fit best! Today it gets a little more serious as the different philanthropies are special like women against domestic violence, Habitat for Humanity, Girl Scouts, Children's Hospital, or Camp Fire USA! You learn about all the philanthropic events that the sorority holds like DHOP, Turtle Tug, Kat's Making Tracks, and other events!
The last day is the least or most stressful of all depending on your view: bid day! Today each PNM finds out which sorority she will be in for the rest of her college experience! You also find out which sorority your Pi Chi is in as well since she has disaffiliated from her sorority since the beginning of the summer to minimize bias. It is a very emotionally-charged day and there is a lot of running and jumping and cheering!
Is anyone going through rush this week? I wish all of you the best of luck!!!
xxKatie
8 comments:
Brings back such wonderful memories! :)
I'm so excited for rush to start! Im a senior this year & can't believe my time is almost up! Our rush is a little different - I'm a DG on a Canadian campus. We start with two days of House Tours/Scholarship, followed by Philanthropy Day, then Chapter Pride/Sisterhood Night, Pref Night, and finally Bid Day! Can't wait! Good luck with rush =)
PS: which sorority are you in?
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And to think everything I knew about sororities came from watching GREEK lol!
Unfortunately we don't have fraternities or sororities here in the UK. Shame :(
Never been in a sorority. That looks cool.
This makes me miss rush so much! At the time I couldn't wait for those long days to be over but now I would give anything to do one last door song!
I'm almost through rush. Pref is tomorrow, and I had my first rush crush this year. She is definitely little material!
Rushing a sorority was by far one of the best decisions I made in college! Panhellenic love to all my greek girlies! There is nothing like sisterhood :)
I agree - going greek was the best decision I made while in college. Our recruitment was different as well. We were one of the only schools to follow strictly FORMAL recruitment. We had Round 1 where the PNMs visit all sororities and learn about philanthropies and things like that, Round 2 where the PNM visited 3 sororities and we focused on philanthropies, and Preference, when the PNM only visited two sororities. This is my second year after graduating and I miss recruitment - I wish I was back for it!! Good luck to all the girls going Greek this year!! <3
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